A California proposal would offset the state’s climate-altering emissions by paying for forest conservation in Chiapas. Could there be unintended consequences in a region with a history of human rights abuse and land grabs?
Am I tough enough? Am I powerful enough? Men put their bodies at risk to cover up pain, fear, and vulnerability.
Tribes are pursuing a hands-on approach to finding and preparing Native foods that give spiritual sustenance, too.
Does your doctor understand what you need? These simple tools are helping practitioners slow down and communicate better with patients.
From play space for kids to AIDS activism: the fight against disease goes grassroots.
What I really want to tell my daughters about autonomy and sex, in the midst of a war on women.
Why a life worth living is a life worth fighting for.
A year ago today, the state of Georgia executed a man whose guilt was widely contested. Jen Marlowe, friend and journalist, on what it was like to stand with the Davis family on the last day.
Laughter, the arts, touch, sleep. What you can do in your everyday life to get healthier.
Your favored candidates may be outspent, but if they out-organize, they may be able to prevail.
What happens when the Motor City transforms itself into the capital of grow-your-own food?
Tending your yard doesn’t have to be noisy, irritating, or fuel-intensive. Here’s how you can unplug.
It won’t be easy to protect our votes from being sidelined and stolen this year, but here are a few simple things we can do.
It's more than buying stuff. It means reckoning with the intersection between our humanity and the political and environmental decisions our society makes.
New findings explain how politics, economics, and ecology can help or hurt our bodies.
The “Vagina Monologues” author on why knowing your body can shake up the world.
Bats are mammals, shy creatures of the night, and fascinating to watch. They’re also endangered by loss of habitat, disease, and pesticide poisoning. You can help by providing protection.
Feeling a need for community? Cohousing can provide affordable space and neighbors to share it with.
A sense of history and community tugged at the heart of Mindy Fullilove and pulled her back to the Jersey home she’d forsaken.
Our homes tell the story of where we come from and who we are. What happens when we lose them?
Corbyn Hightower and her family moved from affluence to poverty—and into a "funky, junky" house that's been the happiest move of their lives.
Cooperative financing and community land trusts keep rents affordable and homeownership within reach.
The fight against unjust evictions just got fiercer as the national Occupy movement joins forces with community anti-foreclosure groups.
Big Oil is a big risk for national security. Can our military—the world's No. 1 oil guzzler—change the politics of climate change?
The challenge: build the greenest houses on earth—and make them affordable.
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